Does Apex Trader Funding Have a Daily Loss Limit?
Rules verified 2026-07-15 · official source
No. Apex Trader Funding has no daily loss limit — the trailing max drawdown is the only loss line. That's simpler, but it means one bad day can spend the ENTIRE account's room.
What limits you instead
Without a daily cap, the only line is the trailing intraday (follows your live peak, open profit included) max drawdown of $1,000 (on the 25K Evaluation). Nothing stops you from losing all of it before lunch.
That's why disciplined traders impose their OWN daily stop when trading Apex Trader Funding — the firm won't do it for them. TradersGuild lets you track a personal daily budget alongside the firm's real lines.
| Plan | Max drawdown (only line) |
|---|---|
| 25K Evaluation | $1,000 |
| 50K Evaluation | $2,000 |
| 100K Evaluation | $3,000 |
| 150K Evaluation | $4,000 |
| 250K Evaluation (Legacy) | $6,500 |
How traders actually breach it
The classic blowup on no-daily-limit firms is a single tilted session that spends weeks of careful trading in an afternoon. The firm's line doesn't care that it was one bad day.
TradersGuild tracks this rule live against your trade log and alerts you while there's still room — "$180 of daily-loss room left" beats finding out from a breach email. Tracking is free for your first account.
Recent Apex Trader Funding rule changes
2026-07-15 — Evaluation drawdown-lock corrected per Apex's own help center: the eval threshold's behavior is PLATFORM-SPLIT — on Tradovate it trails your Peak Balance indefinitely and never locks; on Rithmic/WealthCharts it trails until the account reaches start + target + trailing threshold (e.g. $55,000 on the 50K), then fixes at start + target ($53,000) and no longer trails. TradersGuild now encodes the conservative Tradovate (never-locks) branch so room is never overstated. The PA (funded) lock is unchanged and re-verified: real-time trail locking at start+$100 once the peak (realized or unrealized) reaches start + trailing threshold + $100.
2026-07-07 — Added the legacy 250K Evaluation ($15,000 goal, $6,500 trailing threshold, 27 contracts) — retired for new purchases in Apex 4.0, but live legacy accounts keep trading under the 4.0 payout policy.
FAQ
Does Apex Trader Funding have a daily loss limit?
No. The trailing intraday (follows your live peak, open profit included) max drawdown is the only loss line.
Is no daily loss limit safer?
It's simpler, not safer: with no forced daily stop, one uncontrolled session can consume the account's entire drawdown budget. Impose your own daily cap.
Do open positions count against the drawdown?
Yes — evaluation is on equity, so unrealized losses can trigger a breach even if you never close the trade.
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